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Papers of M H F Wilkins: draft text on the immediate impact of the Crick and Watson DNA double helix model, 1953, with related manuscript notes

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Four typescript early draft partial copies of chapter 8, ‘The double helix’, from Wilkins’ autobiography, <i>The third man of the double helix</i> (Oxford University Press, 2003), with annotations. Also manuscript notes written Oct 1995-Dec 1996, relating to his perception of events that occurred during X-ray diffraction studies of DNA and the creation of the Watson-Crick double helix model 1950-1953, including: his working relationships with Rosalind Franklin, Francis Crick, James Watson and John Randall; his reasons for turning down co-authorship of Watson and Crick’s DNA double helix hypothesis article published in Nature, Apr 1953; how the work of the Biophysics Unit, King’s College London, connected with other research being undertaken in the early 1950s; Wilkins’ feelings  relating to the Watson-Crick double helix model. Original file title ‘HELI 1’.

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Papers of M H F Wilkins: draft text on the immediate impact of the Crick and Watson DNA double helix model, 1953, with related manuscript notes

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